I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, ...

It has been 66 years, but Isabella Svetlosanova still vividly remembers the Nazi siege of her hometown of Leningrad that began in September 1941, and of fleeing at the age of 4 with her mother in ...

ST. PETERSBURG, May 29. /TASS/. Eighty-five-year-old Leningrad siege survivor, former doctor Nina Kremenetskaya was discharged from the Mariinskaya hospital in St. Petersburg after recovering from ...

One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...

I spent 900 days in Leningrad under siege. The war had started only two and a half months previously but fascist troops had already entered the Leningrad Region. The Germans did not so much ...

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the lifting of the German Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. /TASS/.

The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of “heroic ...

Ceremonies have taken place in St Petersburg to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the deadly and gruelling World War Two siege of Leningrad, as the Russian city was then known. Honour guards ...

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum ...

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We spend most of the hour with Simon Parkin, author of "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and their Impossible Choice." The book tells the extraordinary and true story of the ...